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CTA Digital shows off surreal Wii weaponry

At CES, you never know what you'll see, but unfortunately this year there were …

Seeing the CTA Digital booth leads one to ponder what is the oddest Wii peripheral being offered. Is is the light-up handle that simulates a lightsaber? Is it the fishing rod? Or possibly this immensely entertaining wall of hardcore Wii guns? Basically, these things are for people who find the Wii Zapper to be a little wussy. I approve.

I put hands on all these guns, and while some of them were simply riffs on the familiar Zapper design, others included laser sights. One vibrated. And that shotgun at the top? It may look like a piece of white plastic, but in reality it's heavily weighted at the stock; I can't imagine having to actually hoist that thing to play any game for more than a few minutes at a time.

Overkill? Certainly. Worth the money? Probably not. But I'm happy knowing that these things exist. It just seems to make the world a slightly more interesting place to think that there is a company that thought the Wii needed a realistic shotgun attachment.